Final Proofs Returned, Back Cover Okayed for The Tears of Isis; Pre-Orders Open on PMMP Site

The countdown continues with less that two weeks to go before the announced May 15 date for THE TEARS OF ISIS (cf. May 1, et lots of al.). Will we make it? Well, all sorts of bizarre things could happen between now and then (coincidentally a different publisher mentioned legends of strange printer errors and his relief that none had occurred in a book his company had just published), but if it’s late it won’t be because we haven’t tried to keep it on time. And so, late last night, I finished my second pass at the corrected proof sheets and, finding only one item that needed to be changed (this being in newly added front matter which hadn’t been in the original proofs), sent it back to Lori Michelle at Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing. Another milestone passed — so many things that need to be done! And then, in a reply to her reply that she’d received the correction, I also okayed the cover/back cover design, received earlier that day, including proofreading the back cover blurb. So many things. . . .

And then one more thing: Perpetual Motion Machine Publishiig is now officially taking pre-orders for THE TEARS OF ISIS. The price for the printed edition is $12.95 with $3.50 for postage — so be first on your block to have your own copy, and all that good stuff. If you wish to indulge, the address to go to is right here. Or, while you’re at it, if you want to comment on it on Goodreads just press here.

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Be on the watch for my newest book, TOMBS: A CHRONICLE OF LATTER-DAY TIMES OF EARTH, a novel-in-stories just released from Elder Signs Press in June 2017. I am an Indiana based short story writer and poet with three primarily prose collections, STRANGE MISTRESSES: TALES OF WONDER AND ROMANCE and DARKER LOVES: TALES OF MYSTERY AND REGRET published by Dark Regions Press and the Bram Stoker Award(R) nominated THE TEARS OF ISIS from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, and an illustrated all-poetry collection, VAMPS (A RETROSPECTIVE), from Sam’s Dot Publishing/ White Cat Publications. I also have a novelette, THE GARDEN (currently out of print) from Damnation Books; electronic chapbooks VANITAS and I’M DREAMING OF A . . . and novelette PEDS from Untreed Reads Publishing; POLUDNITSA in Chamberton Publishing’s “Chimera” short fantasy series; and more than five hundred individual appearances in magazines and anthologies in the US, Canada, Britain, France, Australia, Holland, and Brazil, ranging from ABORIGINAL SCIENCE FICTION and ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S MYSTERY MAGAZINE to XENOPHILIA and THE YELLOW BAT REVIEW. In the past I have worked a number of jobs including technical writer, city editor on a regional magazine, full time non-fiction freelancer, and semi-professional musician, and now reside in southern Indiana with current cat, Triana, named for the goth-styled daughter of Dr. Orpheus in the VENTURE BROS. Cartoon Channel series. As a writer, I count as influences (among others) Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, Allen Ginsberg, and Bertolt Brecht.